I know from personal experience that when you’re living on a tight budget, saving money feels damn near impossible. Every dime is going toward paying your bills, and there’s little to nothing left at the end of the month. I was at the point where I had nothing in savings, and every unexpected expense ended […]
When my husband and I got married, we knew we had some financial goals we wanted to meet pretty quickly. Together we had six figures of debt, and we knew we wanted to pay that off as soon as possible. Thinking about making these student loan payments twenty years from now sounded miserable, so we […]
Before I started my personal finance journey, I knew almost nothing about money management. Needless to say, there was a huge learning curve. A huge part of this journey has been setting financial goals to create some direction for me. This has been such a game-changer in helping me to take control of my financial […]
One of the first conversations my husband and I had when we got engaged was the money talk. We had already talked about finances before, but getting married meant it was 100% necessary that we get in sync and make sure we were on the same page when it came to financial goals. And the […]
I remember when I graduated from college, excited to finally move on to the next chapter of my life. I had so many plans for what the next decade would look like. And then I got the bill with the student loans I had racked up for the past four years. It’s a punch to the […]
Confession: I used to be really bad about impulse shopping. In college, I would go to the mall, only to leave a few hundred dollars poorer and with bags of clothing that I would probably only wear a few times. After college, I became an emotional shopper and would resort to spending money instead of […]
When you’re new to budgeting, it can be really difficult to figure out how much money you should be spending on each area of your life. How much should we be spending on rent? Groceries? And how much can we spend on fun things like nights out and vacations? I remember moving to a new […]
Do you have a monthly budget? I was probably in my early to mid-twenties before I created my first monthly budget. It was definitely eye-opening – I honestly had no idea how much money I was spending every month! When I first started budgeting, I just used a simple spreadsheet. However, there are so many […]
I think we can all agree that money management can be pretty overwhelming, and the learning curve seems pretty steep at times. There was a time in my mid-twenties when I really felt like I had gotten my money shit together, and my financial future didn’t seem all that scary. And then I got divorced […]
I don’t know about you, but I almost always have more on my to-do list than I can possibly get done. I write my daily to-do list in my daily planner. I also have a running to-do list in Asana of tasks that haven’t made it onto my calendar yet. And let me tell you, […]
